Truman and the Uses of Power
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Lots of newsreel type footage of Atomic detonation; Stalin waving; Truman gives a speech at the democratic convention; Electioneering and campaigning; fireworks and motorcades and lines of jobless men; placards and protests; guys in trenchcoats beating the gates with two by fours; riots; miners; Lots of shots of a really grumpy, heavy jowled, guy with crazy eyebrows who looks the archetype of a corrupt politician; trains; people testifying in court; shot of a young Richard Nixon; Maybe it’s the Rosenberg trial; black men being taken out of the classic paddywagon; sharecroppers working in the cotton fields; young Strom Thurmond ; black soldiers; huge military parades; people living in poverty and attempts at integration
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